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Fribourg, August 6, 2025 – As burglaries rise for the third year in a row in Switzerland, Fribourg-based Mitipi is reinforcing its anti-burglary device KEVIN with artificial intelligence. The presence-simulation system, already known for mimicking daily life with lights and sounds, will soon generate realistic conversations, adapt to users’ routines, and even reproduce their voices. […]

The MSE Summer School 2025 AI & Data Services ran 25–29 August 2025 at HES-SO Master in Lausanne, co-organised by the Swiss AI Center for SMEs and HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland in the context of the Master of Science in Engineering (MSE).29 MSE students from across Switzerland combined morning expert […]

We’re happy to share that two iCoSys papers were presented at CISBAT 2025 and accepted for publication in the CISBAT special issue of the Journal of Physics: Conference Series (IOP Publishing). Posters Diffusion models for conditioned district heating network time-series generationPresented: 3 September 2025, 15:30–16:00Authors: Frédéric Montet, Benjamin Pasquier, Michal Bryxí, Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, Jean Hennebert.Presented: […]

We are proud to share that Spirecut, our partner for advancing AI‑powered image analysis tools for ultrasound‑guided surgery, has been named a finalist in the prestigious GenAI Zürich Awards. The event took place on April 1, 2025, at Technopark Zürich (spirecut.com). Showcasing SoNIT: A Joint Innovation At the awards finale, Spirecut presented the innosuisse funded SoNIT project—Sonography Nerve Instrument Tracking—which integrates real-time […]

Frédéric Montet and Benjamin Pasquier (iCoSys, HEIA-FR/HES-SO) presented new research at ITISE 2025 in Granada on how today’s “foundation models” stack up for time-series forecasting in real-world settings. The work was supported by a young researcher grant from HES-SO won by Prof. Beat Wolf. The study compares popular models from Amazon, Salesforce and Google with […]